TreasonGate - What Did Bush Know, And When Did He Know It?

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Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:47:25 -0800

Re: Thom Hartmann -- TreasonGate: What Did Bush KNow and Whe

 

 

C, The Media are part of the Bush Regime. If we wish to remain

informed of newsworthy events in our country and our government we

have to find it at places like xxxxxx. But sites like this are only

as good as the people who post the information the Bush/Republican

Media censor. I believe all of us have a responsibility to keep the

flow of information available for each other. The Media has stolen our

right to free speech by blocking what they don't want us to know.

Since I unplugged from McMedia I feel I'm better informed now than at

any previous time in my life, again thanks to sites like this one.

 

 

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Fw: Thom Hartmann -- TreasonGate: What Did Bush KNow and When

Thu, 28 Jul 2005 08:59:28 -0500

 

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> pretty incriminating ....

> (I'm personally just incredulous that this scandal is receiving so

> little press coverage. Outing Valerie Plame was HIGH treason,

> putting not only her contacts within the terrorist-investigation

> network at risk, but endangering all of us here at home more than

> any other single act in the history of our country.)

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> Published on Friday, July 22, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

>

> (http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0722-24.htm)

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> TreasonGate - What Did Bush Know, And When Did He Know It?

>

> by Thom Hartmann

>

> Political smears by right-wingers are nothing new. In the election

> of 1800, John Adams had a surrogate newspaper publisher write an

> article about " Dusky Sally, " the half-sister of Thomas Jefferson's

> deceased wife, who was also one of the Jefferson family slaves.

> Jefferson succeeded in avoiding the issue, and his friends pointed

> out that it was merely about his personal life, not national

> security.

>

> George W. Bush may not be so fortunate.

>

> Today comes the revelation in The Wall Street Journal that " A key

> department memo discussing Joseph Wilson's Niger trip was

> classified 'Top Secret,' and the passage about his wife's CIA role

> was specially marked 'S/NF' -- not to be shared with any foreign

> intelligence agencies. "

>

> Perhaps even more damning are reports that the Top Secret-S/NF

> document was apparently first delivered to Air Force One when

> George W. Bush and Colin Powell (who had apparently requested it

> from analysts within the State Department) were flying to Africa in

> 2003.

>

> Somehow - nobody knows at the moment - the information in this Top

> Secret-S/NF document (the identity of Joe Wilson's wife) then

> migrated from Air Force One to George W. Bush's assistant, Karl

> Rove, and Dick Cheney's assistant, Scooter Libby. Rove and Libby

> then immediately began " dialing for dollars " - calling reporters

> with this juicy bit of Top Secret-N/SF information - in an attempt

> to politically assassinate Joe Wilson.

>

> Which raises the question: " What did the President know, and when

> did he know it? "

>

> It's unlikely that Colin Powell would have called Rove and Cheney

> (to give instructions to Libby) with the information in the memo -

> that was above his pay grade. Ditto for Ari Fleischer. And it's

> extremely doubtful that the pilots on the plane even knew about the

> explosive information they were carrying as they flew across the

> Atlantic.

>

> Which leaves George W. Bush, as the only other person on that plane

> with the means, opportunity, and motive.

>

> Thus, perhaps, the reports that Patrick Fitzgerald has now

> subpoenaed the phone logs of Air Force One.

>

> Those of a certain age among us remember well the shocking moment

> when Nixon's lawyer, John Dean, confirmed to Congress that Nixon

> himself was involved in the Watergate scandal.

>

> The urgency Bush brought to deciding on and releasing the name of

> John Roberts coincided relatively closely with a growing press

> awareness that the Top Secret-S/NF memo with Plame's identity

> started it's long path to Bob Novak on Air Force One. Time - and an

> awakened press corps (and hopefully an awakened Congress) - will

> tell if Bush's own fingerprints are all over this treasonous act of

> political revenge.

>

> Thom Hartmann (thom at www.thomhartmann.com) is a Project Censored

> Award-winning best-selling author, and host of a nationally

> syndicated daily progressive talk show, and a morning progressive

> talk show on KPOJ in Portland, Oregon. www.thomhartmann.com His

> most recent books are " The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, "

> " Unequal Protection, " " We The People, " " The Edison Gene " , and " What

> Would Jefferson Do? "

 

 

 

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